Steam Client Updated

January 12, 2011

By Jimmy Thang

Valve has released a new client update for Steam, its popular digital distribution service. The update fixes a number of bugs, improves matchmaking, makes a number of improvements to the Recommendation system and more. Complete patch notes are posted below:

Made various improvements to Recommendations:

Made some general improvements to the algorithm to make "Similar Items" a little more similar

Changed primary source for generated recommendations to be recent playtime rather than recent purchases, prioritizing "new to you" games (ie, games where your recent playtime makes up the bulk of your total playtime for that game)

Fixed DLC recommendations showing for games you haven't really played yet

Games you've recommended will now be shown on your community profile page

Fixed friend recommendations for free games you haven't yet played to show on your recommended page just like friend recommendations for games you don't own.

Added links to the new "Friend Activity" page to the store homepage and community home panel.

Added Turkish translation to the Steam client

[Windows] Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typing support in the in-game overlay, for some games

Fixed a case where a hyperlink in chat could take you to a player’s profile instead

Fixed community opening to your profile instead of the blotter when community is your favorite window (thanks Sir_Brizz!)

Improved Matchmaking function performance

Fixed starting game executables with very long command line parameters (>255 characters)